Isilme Affiliate Request!

[Isilme]

Hi! We'd like to affiliate with you.

Here's our code:
<a href="http://isilmerpg.net/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3000/isilmebannerani.gif" border="0"></a>

[Isilme]

Hi.

This is an active site. You've even changed layout since I asked to affiliate with you. The cbox is full of messages from today. There's been recent roleplay. Staff have been on. Etc.
I find it incredibly rude of you to not have the time to either put our banner up - which does not take a lot of time - or if you're not intending to, to say "Sorry, we don't want to affiliate with you -reasons here-". Frankly, I'm disappointed.

You have three days. If you within those three days reply and say no, yes, we're working on it, add it, whatever, your banner stays on our site. If you fail to reply within three days, your banner goes down.

Thank you.

[Ami the Mess]

Frankly, I'm not so fond of your attitude either. A polite reminder would have worked just as well. Keep in mind that changing a skin means altering the sections that contain the affiliate codes; I was not aware of your request when I began working on the change or I would have included your banner. There is even a chance that it was added by Spectra and I was using an older version of the codes, so they overlapped.

As it is, you will have to wait until our admin logs in later today. You meet all the requirements and we do not make a habit of giving people the silent treatment, so this is very likely an error.

I will make sure your request is reviewed today.

[S p e c t r a]

I'm working full-time, and I was away finding a place to live this weekend. No biggie. Just because a couple important things were updated and my members and staff are active doesn't mean I'm not running around like a chicken with my head cut off, completely forgetting to do non-essential tasks until things slow down a little. My bad! But your attitude was completely uncalled for and unfounded.

If, in the time it took you to sit there tapping your foot impatiently, you'd bothered to take a peek at the other affiliate requests in the board, you'd know that I reply to every single request regardless of whether it is accepted or declined. Just me. All of them. Every time. Chill out. You'd have also seen that there was one request that had been waiting longer than yours, and I hadn't gotten to it either. I'm not sure how you got the idea that you were being singled out and deliberately ignored.

I handle affiliates exclusively, since there are a great many fiddly codes in the headers and footers that a stray semi-colon could turn to garbage. I usually check this sub-board for new requests every week or so. We have a billion and one already, so it's not a high priority, but it always gets done. No one was deliberately ignoring you.

I have been considering opening affiliate approvals to the entire upper staff, but until then people are going to have to bear with my schedule and my sense of priorities. Yours has been the first complaint, and I like I said above the circumstances were a little exceptional.

While I'm not going to rule out affiliating with your site, an apology for your attitude would be reasonable. There were dozens of polite ways to go about your inquiry, and you just didn't bother to use a scrap of courtesy. And now we're all in rotten moods, doesn't that suck? We come here to have fun and escape stress, not to be hounded about a few lines of code that haven't been put up for a week while yours truly's life was getting flipped upside down.

On an unrelated note, our banner isn't up on your main site so much as tucked into a corner. Having our banner up in a post is not the same as having it up on the main page or in the global codes for every page. I know this kind of thing is common practice on many non-board sites, but they usually put their affiliates in the advertising page's header, so at least some views are generated that way. I'd like to see a little more visibility.

Feel free to take our banner down if you are unable to meet these conditions. I bear your site no ill will.

[Isilme]

Ah, my bad on that one - I did not know that there was only one person handling the affiliates, and that that one single person was away. If I had known this, I would've rolled around for a while longer. As it is, I didn't, and I'm not going to blame anyone for that. I am sorry about it, but like I said, I didn't know.

I bear this site no ill will either, it was just the contrast of so many things happening with nothing happening here that irked me. But the cause of that has been cleared up now, for which I am thankful. :) And once again, I'm sorry if I came off as .. rude, for I tried to not do it but apparently failed >.> Argh. I wish text could carry emotions better!

Anyway about the more visibility thing, I'm not 100% certain I understand what you mean. Am I correct in this: you'd rather I showed your banner among, say, the little section about rules that's on the advertising board? *flails*

And, well.. I am pretty harmless. Please believe me. I didn't mean to sound so arsy and make you guys annoyed with me. :/

[S p e c t r a]

I'm glad that's cleared up. Yes, the header of the advertising board is a good location.

[Isilme]

I find it oddly ironic and amusing that the phrase required by the security check now was "crash and burn"... >.>

Anyway, dun dun duuuun, there you are! I hope I got it right. :>

And again, really sorry that I managed to make such a mess out of this >.> I didn't mean to, believe me. Sorry. Plzdon'thateme.

[S p e c t r a]

Apology accepted. Your banner is now up! You can send the affiliate scroller in the opposite direction to see it without having to wait. Beautiful banner, by the way.

[Isilme]

Thanks. It actually gets to me pretty bad when I manage to cause things like this, so that you accept my apology actually means a lot to me.

I saw! :) Thanks a lot for that, too! ^^
Happy roleplaying!

[S p e c t r a]

Same to you!